News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-28
CAM RRIDCE.

| Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Brown. or I'm
derhill, spent few days at William
ScOtt's last week.
Miss Lucy Royce has decidedly i'm
proved in health and seems to be steadi
ly gaining.
Mrs. A. B. Bellus goes to market soon
w. H. Parker. who has been i'll fol
some time, is better.
The village school commences Mon,
day, with Miss Myrtle Perham. of Fair
fax, as teacher i'll the higher department
and Miss Kate Scott, of Montgomery. il
the primary department.
Some of our young people attended
the teachers examination at the Center
Saturday.
Miss Emma Patch, Hattie Hopkins
and Laura Patch arrived here Saturday
evening, having passed the winter at st
Augustine, Florida. They took passage
from there on the water route.
The LamoiEe has been at high water
mark most of the past two weeks. Aside
from the Inconvenience to travellers nt
! damage has been Occasioned.
Rev. Mr.. Wheelock occupied the Meth
odist pulpit last Sunday, preaching from
a text found in Matthew % 20.
! Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Bushnell spent
last Sunday in st. Johnsbury.
Mrs. Henry S. White, of Burlington
who has been visiting friends here, re-
turned home on Thursday last.
The Clipper has Cambridge CORE
| spondent whose nom de plume is Sine
Master Clarence Story hass been at S
W. Royce's during the past week.
l.. j. Knights. the proprietor of the
American House, expects to entertain
city bOarders again this summer.
The winter is past. the rain is over and
gone; the flowers appear on the earth
the time of the singing of birds is come
and the voice of the turtle (dOve) is
heard in our land.
DR.. r. G. Gilbert, on account of i'll
health, has been assisted for few weeks
past by his brother. DR.. N. w. Gilbert,
of Northfield.
Sugaring is about through, with an aY-
erage of about three pounds per tree.
Charles Ellinwood, of Fairbury, Neb.,
is visiting i'll town.
Will Payne saw bobolink the Goth.
Isaac Chase has had the misfortune to
lose nice pair of yearling steer. They
were hitched together with chain, when
they got tangled up and both choked to
death.
Postmaster Jones has kindly given the
following information: OF the papers and
magazines received at the BOro z. o..
eight are published in the State. The
News AND CITIZEN leads the list with 81
subscribers; the st. Adams Messenger is
second with %; Clipper, II; Vermont
Chronicle, S; Jericho Reporter. 5; argus
and Patriot. 5; Household, 2; Burlington
daily Free Press ($6) with subscribers.
The religious papers are the Christian
Herald and Signs of the Times. IA copies :;
Sunday School Times, IL; New York
Witness. 3; also few copies OF the Sab
bath Reading and s. S. Journal. Among
the agricultural papers are the New
England Homestead II copies; Farm
Journal" 8; New England Farmer"
5; American Cultivator," 4; mirror
and Farmer" 4, and EARN and Home, /"
2. Among the standard newspapers are
New York ''Sun," copies; World" 4 {;
"Tribdne," 6; National Tribune" 4;
Troy (weeklyI "Times," s.; Montreal
Herald and STAR" S. The Youths
Companion" has steady list of 20. With
the miscellaneous might be classed few
copies of" Harper's Bazaar, "DelineatOr,"
"Littel's Living Age" etc.
Luther Buker, who died in Cambridge
on Thursday, April q, 1887, was one of
the oldest men in town, being born near
where he died, in the east part of the
town, in 1902. In 1922 he was married
to Sylvia Gallup with whom he lived 81
years, until her death in 1884, and by
whom he had four children, Emerson,
Warren, Mrs. Clarina Patten of Cam
bridge, and Mrs. Augusta Holmes of
Lexington, Mimi. Mr.. Buker was an
honorable man, and had the confidence
of all who knew him during the whole
period of his long life. He could be
trusted at all times to meet his promises
and obligations. His funeral was held
on Sunday, April oath, at the church in
East Cambridge at P. NJ.